Now that I am running my own instance of
FeedLand I see that it stores everything in MySQL, which seems wrong to me. I am not surprised that the feed information is stored in the database, but I would have expected the rivers to be generated outside of the database. My guess is for this to scale to many users the servers running MySQL need to be pretty large and probably clustered. I've noticed the performance of feedland.org to be pretty slow and while feedland.com, hosted by Wordpress, is better, that is not as fast as my own instance.
#It's raining out and it looks like
the Canadian forest fire smoke has reached us as the AQI is at 156. Sensors directly west of us is at least 10 points higher.
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- I've created a Google NotebookLM notebook for my 2025 day notes. Turns out that how Old School generates monthly index files works well as sources to NotebookLM. All I did was add the URL to the monthly index page, like this one for May, as a source to the notebook, and that enables me to ask questions about my writing. I intend to see whether this will work in a manner similar to search for my writing. For now I am not going to share this publicly.#
- If Google enabled RSS feeds to be a source for NotebookLM and that had the ability to get updates then one could have a notebook in which to be able query their latest writing. I tried using the RSS feed for my micro.blog but that is a JSON file that is not a valid source for NotebookLM. Given that at some point in time Google will monetize NotebookLM, I think it's probable that URL structured data like JSON will be a valid source if you have a subscription. Feeds are a constantly flow of information going in to NotebookLM and processing would like significantly increase Google's operating cost of the product. #